A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

lizzyb1812

fuddle wrote: »

I have an appointment for Tuesday Byatt. The medication (citalopram 20mg) says that altered sleep patterns may be a side effect. I will see what she says.

Fuddle - do you take your meds in the morning or at night? I was on exactly the same as you and took it in the evening. At a check up the doctor suggested I take it in the morning as people found they had better sleep if they did - changed to morning and it did help though why they couldn't have told me when to take it in the first place I'll never know. I'm on 10mg now and about to start, very gradually, reducing that - miss one day next week, 2 days, spaced out, the week after etc. It does help a lot but when you take it and how you cut down is important. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about it.

Welcome back Sammykaye - you have been through the mill haven't you? Relatives will always do their own sometimes silly thing but I know it can add a lot to already big burdens. Hang in there girl.

"Rock chick" phase - I'm hoping to avoid the hippy phase my mum went through in her sixties - some very bizarre outfits there :rotfl:

stiltwalker

Hey I have my biker jacket in the cupboard- it still gets worn sometimes but it is a little battered after 20 years of almost constantly being in favour! The rest of the clothes have toned down considerably over the years though as has my dedication to black khol and black nail varnish. 2 children has put paid to any jewellery other than my engagement ring, let alone the large quantity of silver rings and earring I used to wear! But hey ho - I'm still a rock chick at heart! DD and I were listening to a bit of guns and roses in the car the other day - I'm training her up well, I was singing and she was banging her legs and chuntering along too, DS just looked bemused but he is only one, by the time he's two we'll have him trained up too!

Fuddle - I'd have a trolley like a shot but think it would be a bit difficult with the double buggy! :rotfl: Getting shot of the car is not an option for us, rural location, carpy public transport combined with kids with disabilities mean that the estate is an essential. We do only run the one car though as fortunately OH works close enough to walk to work (or he has colleagues who he can cadge a lift off).

Sammy - what can I say? Some old chestnut like whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger? You're one tough chick! :T So good to see you back though.

ginnyknit

I got a chariot - sorry bag on wheels last year for emergencies and now we are in emergency mode, OH cannot always manage supermarkets but I can toddle off to Mr A with aforementioned chariot and do a load of shopping with no hassle. You are tired hunny, s*d what anyone thinks and make a stand for chariot pullers everywhere!

Bonnie, no worries reply when you have al your brain cells in a line x

I had a productive day, 6 portions of fish pie and apple crumble, 3 of each for tea and 3 in the freezer. More seeds planted - cross you bloomin fingers that the wildlife dont theive them :mad: Good news my fennel has survived being planted outdoors :T going to risk the peas tomorrow but dont want my babies to get eaten so am building a machine gun turret in the garden...slugs beware your days are numbered

Smileyt, theres always Bl**dy something that stops us getting on isnt there and its usually red tape. Did you know that if you run a cricket team with younger players and, I think, umpiring too, you need a CRB check :mad: OH used to have to renew his when he was running a team.

Well had 4 hours sleep last night so hoping to nod off anytime soon. Hugs to all

fuddle

Hi Sammy great to see you posting here again but really, really rough stuff around you at the moment. eeek, for little kiddies and learning boundaries. It's hard isn't it. Not to mention wearing :eek:

Trolleys. I hadn't realised they were quite so funky through the times and with the kids right now further town the country. I'm up north and still only see the oldies with them and they still have the negative connotations about old/blue rinse etc, etc. I find society bizarre in this country - what is accepted down south is so in the future here - we needs to catch up!

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

Fuddle - do you take your meds in the morning or at night? I was on exactly the same as you and took it in the evening. At a check up the doctor suggested I take it in the morning as people found they had better sleep if they did - changed to morning and it did help though why they couldn't have told me when to take it in the first place I'll never know. I'm on 10mg now and about to start, very gradually, reducing that - miss one day next week, 2 days, spaced out, the week after etc. It does help a lot but when you take it and how you cut down is important. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about it.

I've taken them at around 8am since I started a month ago lizzy. Doc suggested I'd be on them for about a year because I've struggled with depression/anxiety all my life, at least from teens and she thinks it's deep rooted now. She even suggested that the anxiety side might mean I stay on them indefinitely but she will try weaning me off them in another 11 months or so. I did wonder how I would cope coming off them as I get terrible head aches and the shakes even if I'm a few hours late in taking it. Every thing else about them is brilliant. I can actually chill out with a cuppa now, whereas before I was worrying about my loved ones the minute I stopped. It was a pretty desperate existence really but I pretty much always got my 8 hours on a night.

I woke at 4.30am this morning but I had been asleep since 8.30 last night so at least I have my sleep out. The best thing is I am a SAHM so I don't have a job to go to. Although, last night was very unpleasant for the kids as I was unbelievably snappy.

When I woke it was glorious sunshine and now it's come over all heavy. I have a hat to make for my nephew to be today (my sister didn't like the other on, even with the bigger pom pom :mad: ) I wish I had the nerve to say "just go blooody buy one then" but I haven't so shall be the smiley martyr and just winge it all out to you all ;):D:cool::rotfl:

meme30

'When I woke it was glorious sunshine and now it's come over all heavy. I have a hat to make for my nephew to be today (my sister didn't like the other on, even with the bigger pom pom ) I wish I had the nerve to say "just go blooody buy one then" but I haven't so shall be the smiley martyr and just winge it all out to you all'

Fuddle:-OMG! Your sister is so ungrateful and so rude! :wall: Whinge away we don't mind!

Smiley:- Thats a bu88er!, hope something turns up soon.

Sammy_kaye:- You have been through it, welcome back.:grouphug:

Katei0wl:-Great that DD is finally finished uni. Sounds like you have a lot on at the moment. Still, if it were quiet you would be worrying so it just shows you cannot win!:rotfl:

Byatt:- Re- palpitations, have you been drinking a lot of tea/coffee/coca cola? Caffeine is notorious for causing palpitations.

Am heading back to the Opticians today. I picked my new vari-focals up a week ago and they are not right. I have used vari-focals for four years so it's not that I am not used to them. The distance bit is great, its the near sight that's bad. (I am short sighted) Unless I tip my head right back I cannot read a book on my knee!. I cannot read my laptop without using my spare hand to lift my glasses up by a half an inch! :eek: So going to see what they say, can't go on like this. I am getting headaches and I know it's because my eyes are not right.

fuddle

I know my sister appreciates what I'm doing for her but she doesn't have the common sense to protect others feelings and her own need for perfection/her exact way means that she just opens her mouth without thinking half the time.

meme I've been heavily short sighted since my teens. I can read a book perfectly with my glasses on normally though..... until this morning. I had to take my glasses off to crochet just now. Funny you posted that. It might be the tiredness but I feel like I've a sore head coming on. I tell you, get to 30 and things start to just bliddy go! 33 this year and already I've noticed a decline in things I took for granted. I know, gonna get shouted at that I'm still a spring chicken. That maybe... but an achey one at that! lol Have a good morning all. Off to do the morning/school chores - going to be hard, doggy wants to play :eek:

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

meme I've been heavily short sighted since my teens. I can read a book perfectly with my glasses on normally though..... until this morning. I had to take my glasses off to crochet just now. Funny you posted that. It might be the tiredness but I feel like I've a sore head coming on. I tell you, get to 30 and things start to just bliddy go! 33 this year and already I've noticed a decline in things I took for granted. I know, gonna get shouted at that I'm still a spring chicken. That maybe... but an achey one at that! lol Have a good morning all. Off to do the morning/school chores - going to be hard, doggy wants to play :eek:

Hey, fuddle, once I hit 30 I noticed that if you wnt to the GP with a problem it was your age . I mean, at 30! I suppose it makes a change from it's a virus. After some very rocky times with the GP from Hell (imagine Basil Fawlty as a GP not a hotelier and you've got the picture) I now have a lovely one. He's about my age (late forties) and said on the last visit it's probably not that as you're quite young so I had to resist jumping out of the chair and hugging him.:p One thing I do find being a bit older means that I'm more inclined to stiffen up if I stay still so the answer is to keep charging around like a blue a$$ed fly and all will probably be OK.

katieowl good grief, girl, and I wondered where you'd been and now we know. Hope the tooth is better now. Very hard to concentrate on life with a tooth going wrong.

:eek::eek:I flipped Radio 4 on about 6.40 am this morning and caught the last few secs of a report about slugs, as in 50% increase in population. I feel sick just thinking about it.

Years ago, back when I believed stuff in gardening books, I read that you can pile up couch grass clumps, cover them with something light excluding like black plastic and within a year they'll rot down to a lovely compost. This is a dirty rotten lie, btw; within 3 years the 3 foot pile had subsided by a whole 8 inches and whenever there was a hole, it started growing thru.

Anyway, I digress. So, having this black plastic mound in the way caused me to try a trick from another gardening book; plant out courgette plants into slits cut in the plastic. They were badly chewed after 24 hours. I set out dishes of beer alongside them. They were filled to overflowing with dead slugs and the following day all of them were gone. I assume that the bigger birdies scarfed the beery slugs and then flew in erratic patterns across the lottie singing drunkenly and carooming off the TV ariels on houses across the street. All the courgettes were eaten down to stubs and I spent less time with gardening books and more time minding what my old Dad and Grandad had taught me.

Ooooff, need more tea. Have a good day, everyone, just wish I wasn't needing to go out with waterproofs............

lizzyb1812

fuddle wrote: »

I've taken them at around 8am since I started a month ago lizzy.

Sorry, didn't realise you had only been on them for a short time - I expect you will be a lot more settled routine/sleep wise after the second month - that was my experience.

You are heavily short-sighted? Me too. You're starting to resemble the daughter I never had :rotfl:I'm also one for thinking up a whole load of apparently mad ideas that in fact actually do have quite a lot of merit and I've never been one to follow the herd either.

Varifocals - my optician tells me that where your glasses are positioned in relation to your eyes is very important. Just getting the fit right can make a big difference and the optician can sort that out in just a few minutes.

50% increase in slugs - eep :eek: Planted out my sweetcorn yesterday - dreading what I'll find this morning. They've already given my pepper plants a beating - a sneaky so and so got into the greenhouse in one of the pots and had a feast until I found the beggar. Experimenting with growing cabbages under fleece - not removing it at all - so far all comers have been repelled and the plants are doing really well :T

Looks like it's going to be a sunny day today - best make the most of it as the rain is due back for the rest of the week

Second cup of coffee calling. Have a good one.

slowlyfading

:hello: morning everyone!

Just a quick message to say I hope everyone has a good day I' in a right grump this morning, oh well

50% increase in slugs sounds horrible :eek: I may avoid the garden in future....

fuddle

50% increase in slugs? I have seen loads of black ones (are there any different colours of slugs? :cool: ) on the footpaths this last few weeks so that would ring true. I know my BIL is having problems this year, more than last year. My solution when I had a love affair with hostas in my lovely garden that I had to leave behind 3 years ago was broken up egg shells all around the plant. It did work and the best solution for me as I then had a curious little one rambling around the place.

How many eggs would you need to consume to kit out an allotment that way :D:p;):rotfl: